[Suns-at-Home] SPARC 5 Video troubles and Sparc2 question

[der Mouse]

> but it seems one or both lines of synch are not working from the
> twisted look of the screen.  Is there something I missed in the
> cabling, or is there something I have to modify in addition that I
> didn't know about?

Depending on how you're displaying the result, there's some chance the
actual problem is that the console is set to the framebuffer at a
resolution your display device doesn't support, and it's trying anyway
(and failing rather dismally).

You might try using serial console (disconnect the keyboard before
power-up and it puts console on ttya) and see what "printenv" at the
ROM "ok" prompt says input-device and output-device are set to.  If you
set output-device to "screen" ("setenv output-device screen") then it
should come up at its default resolution, which is almost always
1152x900.

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